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Ricardo Primi

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Ricardo Primi

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Psychologist, Associate Professor at Universidade São Francisco (USF), Brazil. Lead scientist of EduLab21 at the Ayrton Senna Institute (IAS)

Education

University of São Paulo

Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Human Development

São Paulo, Brazil

1998

Thesis: Development of a computerized test for the assessment of the analytical thinking.

Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas

M.S. in Psychology

Campinas, Brazil

1992

Thesis: Intelligence, Information Processing and Gestalt Theory: An Experimental Study.

Professional Experience

Associate Professor

University of São Francisco (USF), Graduate Program in Psychology (Psychological and Educational Assessment).

Campinas, Brazil

1995-current

  • Mentored 83 doctoral, postdoctoral, and master’s students.
  • Tough courses in psychometrics and quantitative methods and R programing.
  • Developed cutting-edge research proposals funded by government agencies for the development of new assessment tools of intelligence and social and emotional skills.

Lead Research Scientist

EduLab21, Ayrton Senna Institute

São Paulo, Brazil

2015 - current

  • Developed assessment instruments for measuring social and emotional skills, critical and creative thinking for large-scale testing programs in Brazil
  • Developed dashboards to share results with school administrators and policy makers
  • Advised on scientific governing board.
  • Conducted psychometric analyses for the Socio-Emotional Skills Study of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

Visiting Research Scholar

Stanford University, Lemann Center Graduate School of Education University of California at Berkeley, Institute of Personality and Social Research – IPSR

CA, USA

2019-2020

  • Developed research project on social and emotional skills and learning
  • Published scientific papers in high tear journals.

Teaching Experience

Undergraduate courses.

Psychological Assessment, Personality Assessment, Intelligence Assessment, Psychometrics, Statistical Methods, Supervised Bachelor final projects.

Campinas, Brazil

2001 - present

Graduate Courses.

Data Science applied to Psychometrics, Item Response Theory, Structural Equation Modeling, Statistics for Human Science, Research Seminar, Scientific Writing.

Campinas, Brazil

2001 - present

Selected Publications

Divergent productions of metaphors: Combining Many-Facet Rasch measurement and cognitive psychology in the assessment of creativity..

Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, 8, 461–474. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038055

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2014

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Developing a fluid intelligence scale through a combination of Rasch modeling and cognitive psychology.

Psychological Assessment, 26, 774–788. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036712

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2014

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Fluid intelligence as a predictor of learning: A longitudinal multilevel approach applied to math.

Learning and Individual Differences, 26, 20, 446–451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2010.05.001

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2010

Primi R., Ferrão, M. E., & Almeida, L. S.

Complexity of geometric inductive reasoning tasks Contribution to the understanding of fluid intelligence..

Intelligence, 30(1), 41–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0160-2896(01)00067-8

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2001

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